The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-06-18
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE

NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.
Louis Kossuth, the venerable Hun
garian patriot, says in late letter: " The
burden OF more than eighty-four years
-7eighs down my infirm shoulders. Under
this weight the body is deadened. the
soul grows blunted; life becomes state
OF mere barren vegetating. Man feels
then like some time-worn, noldered ruip,
which no longer assorts with the world
Of the living"
-deorge Eliot is buried in Highgate
Cemetery, London. The grave is in a
most unattractive spot. The stone at it's
head is perfectly simple and is of white
marble, 1t bears the name "Msry Ann
Gross" above that of George Eliot"
Across narrow pathway is the grave of
George Lewes. His grave looks much
older than that Of George Eliot, although
1t was made but two years earlier.
bisnop White, of Pennsylvania,
was sitting one day at dinner with that
bold and perhaps INSCRIPTIONS financier
OF the Rev evolutionary times, Robert Nor
Ills, when the latter said, Bishop, have
made my will, and have devised to Won
all my impudence." "In that case" re-
Piled the bishop" you have certainly left
me the greater part of your estate,
Yes, bishop" interposed Mrs. White:
and 1T Is plain that you have entered
Immediately upon your inheritance"
An interesting feature of the nau
rules OF precedence at the White House
lies in the fact that next year the young
est woman in the cabinet circle will have
first place in the line OF assistants at the
presidential receptions. Miss Bayard,
the eldest daughter of Secretary Bsyard,
who now presides over bis household,
takes precedence over the other cabinet
ladies at the right of Mrs. Cleveland.
Miss Bayard is about Mrs. Cleveland's
age, quite tall, and very attractive wo-
man.
The remarkable fact that Senator
Cameron the other day took his baby
from the perambulator and carried il
into his house in his arms SO astonished
a Washington correspondent that it
forms the burden of his narrative. The
spectacle of the great unbending is al
ways impressive, but the correspondent
was almost as much astonished as was
MIR. Pepys when he called upon the Duke
of York, and, as he recorded with awe,
found him playing with his children
"hke common Naturalization Tram
script.
Miss Julia Elizabeth Forneret was
on recent Sunday installed as deaconess
in the Episcopal church by Bishop Pot
ter OF New York. She is the first deacon
ess admitted to that church for nearly
40Oyears. and the first one ever created in
America. She is not a eister,in being under
the orders of a superior and devoted to
religious life, but instead, she remains in
the world, mingles with it, but all the
time Is engaged in church work suited to
her sex and capacity. Miss Forneret is
a tall, graceful lady, and in the dress of
clerical suggestion which she wears, looks
like veritable Lady Bountiful.
Major Ben: Perley Poore, printer
editor, correspondent and author, died
his residence in Washington, May 80; Wa
born in 1920, at Indian Hill Farm, about
four miles from Newburyport, Mass,
where his paternsl ancestors had lived in
unbroken succession since 1850. At the
age OF seven he was taken to the District
of Columbia, the birthplace OF his mother,
and where much of his long, busy life has
been passed. In 1881 he accompanied
his parents to Europe, where he enjoyed
the privilege of meeting such repre- senta-
tive men as Sir Walter Scott, Thomas
Moore, General Lafayette and others.
A writer in the Boston transcript
is inspired by the recent publication of
Edwin P. Whipple's essays on American
Literature to relate an incident which
occurred a good while ago in an office
where certain essays of Mr.. Whipple's
were being prepared for publication. A
proof-reader detected, in the authors
text, singular verb which had been
ruthlessly yoked with a plural noun.
"Ah, MIR. Whipple," the proof-reader
ventured, "Here is an error in grammar"
can error In GRAMMAR" said Mr.. Whip
pie. "There is no such thing as English
grammar. do not consider it. I write
for the rythm--that's ALL"
The Rev. j. p. Knight died lately
at Yarmouth, England. He was the au-
thor of "She Wore Wreath of Roses"
Rocked in the Cradle OF the Deep" and
other well known songs. He was seventy
five years old, having been born at Brad
ford-on-the-Avon July 26, 1912. While
in America in 1886 he composed Rocked
in the Cradle of the Deep" Mr.. Knight
was for some time connected with the
ministry of the Church of England.
Under his own name and that of " Philip
H.